Serious Question: If you had the choice between this or that…

If you had the choice between working for a small advisory middle market firm in New York or a large well known bulge bracket outside of New York like Los Angeles or Houston as an example. Which would you choose and what’s the rationale? I feel like it might be a dumb question but at the same time, I feel like it isn’t.

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